“I would take the banana cream pie we are going to make a little later on. You can either feed it to him if he calms down or you can throw it at him.”
–Domestic guru Martha Stewart coaches CNBC’s Jim Cramer on how to handle Jon Stewart before Cramer’s humiliating appearance on The Daily Show.
“The Madoff scheme relied on a timeless human failing: gullibility, driven by a desire to imagine that something too good to be true just might be true anyway.”
–Journalist Erin E. Arvedlund writing in Barron’s. Arvedlund was among the first reporters to question the methods of Ponzi schemer Bernard Madoff.
“If a man hits you once, he will hit you again.”
–American talk show host and philanthropist Oprah Winfrey offers some useful advice to British singer Rihanna. Approximately 1.3 million women in the United States alone are subjected to physical abuse by their partners.
“I straight up don’t understand this woman or her popularity. I find her offensive, radical, insulting, and confusing all at the same time.”
—Meghan McCain, daughter of 2008 Republican presidential candidate John McCain, on conservative pundit Ann Coulter.
“First, I wanted people to see that the Supreme Court isn’t all male….I also wanted them to see I was alive and well, contrary to that senator who said I’d be dead within nine months.”
–U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on why she made it to President Obama’s televised address to Congress one month after her pancreatic cancer surgery. Ginsburg, the only woman on the nation’s highest court, says that she plans to stay there for years.
“She’s a role model for other women worldwide. She represents what we can achieve.”
–Mattel spokeswoman Stephanie Wegener on the German Chancellor Angela Merkel Barbie doll. Happy belated 50th birthday, Barbie!
